Coffee-making machine



Feb. 24, 1925. 1,527,962

7 w. A. 'LAMB COFFEE MAKING MACHINE Fild Sept. 1923 Ma 1W 47 I all? cation was forfeite .final fee.

Patented Feb 24,1925.

A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

wmu'ul A. Luna, or nvnsn'r'r, massacnosnr'rs, ASSIGNQB, BY nnsnn assmn- ;ums, T0 em comumr, or MALDEN, uassacnusmrs, A conrona'rron or CONNECTICUT.

To all whom it may com-m: .Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. LAMB, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Everett, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Cofiee-Making Machines, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

The present invention relates to coffee making machines, and more particularly to coffee makin machines of the filter type.

These niac ines usually. comprise a base for a heating medium, a single vertical column carried by the base, and a glass container supported from the column in os1- tion for the action of the heating medium. In one commercial type of these machines the device, by means ofwhich the container is supported from the column is provlded with a handle so that the container may be lifted from the column and the made coffee in the container poured into a cvp. The lifting of the container from the column and the subsequent pouring of the contents of the container into a cup sub'ects the wrist of the user to the entire weig t of the container which creates a twisting strain on the wrist during the pouring operation. Experience has demonstrated that this twisting strain is an annoying feature in the use of coffee making machines.

The object of the present invention is to produce a cofiee makin machine having a container from which t e contents may be poured in a satisfactory manner, as fully set forth in my prior abandoned application, Serial No. 180,099, filed July 12, 1917 and allowed Januar 8, 1921, which applifor non-payment of To the accomplishment of this object a feature of the resent invention contemplates the provision, in a coffee making machine having a base for a heating medium and a single vertical column carried by the base, of a container supported from the columnin position for the action of the heating medium movable about a fixed axis to pour the contents of the container.

With this construction the container may be turned about thefixed axis in a most convenient manner to pour the contents COFFEE-MAKING MACHINE.

Application filed September 85, 1923. Serial No. 884,778.

therefrom without subjecting the user to the duty of handlin a'heavy object and turning that heavy'ogject through a twist of the wrist.

Broadly considered the container may be supported from the single vertical column in any suitable manner found desirable or expedient. It is preferred, however, to support the container on a horizontal shaft journaled on the column and to provide means for normally preventing the rotation of the shaft 1n its journal. This means may con- "veniently take the form of a pair of co-operating devices, one of which is mounted on the shaft and the other one of which is mounted on the column. '-One of ,these devlces may, after its separation from the other device, serve as a handle for rotating the shaft to pour the contents of the container.

Figure 1 shows the container in the position when the coffee is being heated, and Fl 'lli'e 2 when the prepared coffee is ready to lie poured.

'In the illustrated embodiment of the invention the coffee making machine comprises a base 1 provided with a depression 2 in which a heating medium 3 is. seated. 'Rising from the base 1 is a single vertical column 4 which is provided at its upper end with a journal 5 for a horizontal shaft 6 rotatably mounted therein. The shaft 6 carries at one end a readily separable clamp 7 for supporting a container 8 forming the lower part of a. coffee making machine of a well own type.

In order to normall ,hold the shaft 5 in a fixed position to su ject the container '8 to the heat of the heating medium, the end of the shaft 6 opposite the clamp 7 is provided with a pivoted handle 9 the shank of which may be wedged between a pair of lugs 10 on thecolumn 4.

In order to pour the contents of the container, the handle 9 is swung away from the lugs 10 and positioned above the shaft 6 in the manner illustrated in Fig. 2; Then.

alone for the pur' se of boiling or heating other beverages t an coflee.

M invention is further described and define in the form of claim as follows:

A coffee making machine, haiing, in combination, a base for supporting a heating medium, a column rising from said base, a horizontal shaft supported in bearings on said column, a container supported by said shaft in position to be heated by said heating medium, a pair of lugs projecting rearwardly from said column, and a handle pivoted on said horizontal shaft whereby said handle may, be swung downwardly mto a position substantially parallel to said col- 16 In testimony whereof I have signed my 20 name to this specification.

WILLIAM A. LAMB 

